Open-Circuit is pleased to welcome back Casper-electronics (Peter Edwards -Netherlands / USA) to host The OMSynth Minilab workshop at the Islington Mill, Salford UK as well as a rare UK performance on his customised sound & light synth for Gesamtkunstwerk 12
In this workshop he will cover the basics of designing and building your own custom electronic noise machine. By the end each participant will have a personalized instrument to take home that they have designed as well as the skills and hardware necessary to continue exploring.
Part electronics learning lab, part musical instrument, the MiniLab gives you everything you need to build, hack and play with a wide range of experimental sound circuits.
Places are £90 and we are asking for a £40 deposit to secure a space.. (limited to 10 places.) - please use the paypal button to the right of our tumblr page.
Experience: Allskill levels are welcome in this workshop from the absolute beginner to theexperienced engineer.
Materials: Allmaterials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring tools andsupplies of their own if they like.
Age: 18+. Younger participants may be accepted on special request
Schedule: This workshop has 3 parts.
Each participant will receive an assembled OMSynth minilab synthesizer prototyping kit. This kit has been designed to allow inventors to quickly and easily build and play with simple sound making circuits. This is achieved by providing all of the general building blocks they will need such as a power supply and audio amplifier. The inventor can then put their focus into exploring sound making circuitry rather than struggling with all of the important but ultimately unexciting support circuits.
Build a simple light controlled noise generator. This stage is in introduction to how the OMSynth MiniLab works and how just a few components can be used to start making sound. In this stage we will cover the basics of electricity and oscillator operation.
Design your own sound circuit using logic chips and op amps. We will go over a variety of simple circuits that can be combined and tweaked to design a custom instrument we will also discuss electrical theory as well as electrical component behavior in more depth.
Casperelectronics. Following a degree in sculpture he received an MA from experimental electronic music and the experimental design of physical interfaces on the Institute of Sonology in Haag and at STEIM in Amsterdam. He designs and produces electronic instruments, as is, for example, the famous Nova Drone) and offers them on his website Casperelectronics in form of kits. He lectures on the principles of hacking hardware (he currently lectures about DIY electronics at the Royal Academy of Art in Haag) and publishes exercise books on electronics for the American DIY tech magazine Make. He was a guest lecturer, held workshops and performed at elite universities, such as MIT’s Media Lab, Hasbro Toys, Hampshire College, Skidmore College, New York University, Bloomfield University, Long Beach University and Georgia Southern University, and on new-media art festivals across the globe, among others at Piksel (Bergen, Norway), OFFF and Pixel (Paris, France), Sequences (Reykjavik, Island), Transmediale, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Performa and Bent (New York & Los Angeles, USA).\ \ His sculptures have been exhibited at the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, USA), Green Gallery (Yale University, New Haven, USA), West Hall Gallery (RPI, Troy, USA) ABC no Rio (New York, USA), Lost Horse Gallery (Reykjavik, Island), Hans Wies Gallery (Manchester, USA). He has collaborated with prominent musicians, such as Danny Elfman, Mike Patton, The Melvins, Rahzel, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dan Deacon and many others.